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William Blake wrote, “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” The Gaslamp Killer has kicked in the doors between genres his entire career, charting infinite pathways that connect hip-hop, rock, electronic, psychedelia, and more music pulled from deep crates of dust-kissed vinyl. At Low End Theory — the internationally-renowned Los Angeles club night and beat scene mecca he co-founded — his devastating and unpredictable resident DJ sets were shaman-like ceremonies, his wiry limbs mixing, cutting, and scratching records with surgical precision while the bass coursed through his flailing body. On 2012’s Breakthrough, Gaslamp transmuted the spontaneous chaos of his heartfelt and genre-spanning live shows into a revolutionary album that encapsulated the breadth of the beat scene while expanding its boundaries. The album’s core is “Nissim” (later featured in Grand Theft Auto V). An ode to Gaslamp’s deceased grandfather and older brother co-written
